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Process:Role: CIA Agent
Mission: Data Gathering
Location: A foreign country to be determined by you and your top officer.
You must keep a detailed record of any discoveries and capture as much evidence to present to the President. In particular you will need to find the answers to the following questions:
• What is the type of government? (democracy, monarchy, constitutional monarchy, etc)
• How is the government structured? (houses, chambers, if any).
• What is the top positions? (prime minister, chancellor, president).
• Who is the head of government?
• Where is the capital?
• What is the size of the country in area?
• Population size?
• Ethnic breakdowns or tensions?
• Who are some important people from the country's history?
• What are distinct cultural aspects of the country? (Food, Music, Clothing, etc).
For our strategic planning session we would like you to assess the countries:
• Nuclear power and nuclear weapons
• Other weapons capacity
• Military power, including size and strength.
Be prepared to present a video diary from the trip answering these questions and anything else relevant you discovered through your investigation of the country.
You will need to use some sort of video editing program like imovie or windows movie maker. For instructions on using imovie please look at this site. For information on the video you have to make please look at the two rubrics on the Task and Evaluations page.
3-28-08
Mission: Data Gathering
Location: A foreign country to be determined by you and your top officer.
You must keep a detailed record of any discoveries and capture as much evidence to present to the President. In particular you will need to find the answers to the following questions:
• What is the type of government? (democracy, monarchy, constitutional monarchy, etc)
• How is the government structured? (houses, chambers, if any).
• What is the top positions? (prime minister, chancellor, president).
• Who is the head of government?
• Where is the capital?
• What is the size of the country in area?
• Population size?
• Ethnic breakdowns or tensions?
• Who are some important people from the country's history?
• What are distinct cultural aspects of the country? (Food, Music, Clothing, etc).
For our strategic planning session we would like you to assess the countries:
• Nuclear power and nuclear weapons
• Other weapons capacity
• Military power, including size and strength.
Be prepared to present a video diary from the trip answering these questions and anything else relevant you discovered through your investigation of the country.
You will need to use some sort of video editing program like imovie or windows movie maker. For instructions on using imovie please look at this site. For information on the video you have to make please look at the two rubrics on the Task and Evaluations page.
3-28-08